Twenty years of transparency research. James Alt, October 26, 2018, Paper, "A keynote speech given at the conference “Public Sector…
The Crisis Next Time: What We Should Have Learned From 2008. Carmen Reinhart, November/December 2018, Paper, "At the turn of this…
Is Retail Dying? Plus, How Are Companies Spending their Tax Cuts? Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, October 24, 2018, Audio…
An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example. Anyone who…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…
Prices vs. Quantities Across Jurisdictions. Martin Weitzman, October 23, 2018, Paper, "We extend the standard 'prices vs. quantities'…
The Ethnic Migrant Inventor Effect: Codification and Recombination of Knowledge Across Borders. Prithwiraj Choudhury, October 22, 2018…
The 40th anniversary of the Alma-Ata Declaration gave the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health an opportunity to assess progress…
States have always used a combination of diplomatic, military, economic, and informational measures to advance their national interests,…
The disappearance and likely death of Jamal Khashoggi is a clarifying moment. If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia proves to be complicit,…